Watching a huddled mass escape Central America this fall inspired an urge among many to rush to the border with food and water, while others chose to...
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Discover Margin Notes columns on economic justice and current events, offering thoughtful reflections for Catholics engaging the world.
My wife asked me a week before school started this September if I had remembered to purchase my youngest child’s “school toolbox.” For the uninitiated, that’s...
The apparent murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi brought a renewed focus on U.S.-Saudi relations in October. Turkish investigators report that...
Work is part of how we participate in God’s creation. The church teaches that human labor should be compensated with a just wage; that is, workers should...
This summer the revelations of past assault on children and harassment committed by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick roiled the U.S. church. Other exposés of abuses...
Since the “Great Return” demonstrations along the border with Israel and the Gaza Strip began in March this year, scores of Palestinians have been shot to...
Ask just about any anti-poverty advocate about the worst scourges on the nation’s poor, and without fail you will hear about the $7.4 billion payday loan...
Getting dressed. Going to work. Enjoying dinner with friends or family. Celebrating an engagement. These are just a few of the moments a new documentary...
If all your tools come out of the Department of Defense budget then all your solutions look like SEAL raids and drone strikes. The nation’s new National...
Practicing Catholics the world over understand the importance of giving up something for Lent. The typical Lenten sacrifice includes perennial favorites such...
